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Chicago examiner vol vl no 282 a m saturday november 14 1908 16 pages price one cent i gss criminal court clerk harris indicted for perjury representative edward j smejkal also accused of primary frauds 38 indictments returned high officials charged with intimidation and falsify ing pol books work only just begun prosecutor loesch says men higher up are next on i fr erjury intimidation falsifica |^ tion of poll books and know * ingly accepting illegal votes at the august primary election were charged yesterday in thirty-eight in dictments returned hy the special grand jury against election officers politicians and ward leaders in the ninth and nineteenth wards abram j harris clerk of the crim inal court was caught in the grand jury toils and is under eight indict ments four of which charge him with perjury harris whose office is two floors below the room in which the in dictments were voted was plainly af ' fected by the news he said that he was innocent but would not or could not explain away the evidence against another high public officer placed under indictment yesterday was ed i ward j smejkal representative in the legislature and republican cap tain of the twenty-second precinct of the nineteenth ward smejkal did not appear at the court building al : though he knew that he was to be ln . dieted last night he refused to talk ' further than to declare his innocence men indicted are prominent the other men indicted nre all prominent in politics in their immediate neighbor i hoods several of them being precinct cap ' tains and ward leaders among their num ber are the four men indicted last week who are now charged with further offenses l special state's attorney frank j loesch and his osslstants prophesy that this is to be but a beginning we have been working hard this week said mr loesch nnd we feel that we have accomplished somcttvng we are not through yet by any means however much has been said about men higher ' up i trust that the results to-day will not make them feel any more secure than heretofore we shall not stop until we have gone to the very top of this con spiracy we will be busier thau ever next left work incomplete â– Â» the special grand jury worked furiously all day yesterday and was not able to make its return to judge freeman until after 4 o'clock the harris indictments were voted yesterday along with nine others the grand jury left its wnrli in a measure incomplete when lt adjourned to go before judge freeman as there are a number of other alleged offenders ln these same wards several of them closely associated with those already indicted against whom it ts felt sufficient evidence has already been secured criminal court clerk harris whose in dictment brought surprise and alarm to a best of his political associates on the west side has been ln politics in Chicago for aeveral years his first public service *.__ aa alderman fiom the ninth ward and he waa ln the city council for two terms he t.-s elected clerk of the criminal court two years ago and still has two years to serve aa clerk lt became his duty list night to issue a capias against harris appeared before judge freeman at 1.80 yesterday afternoon and gave bond in the sum of 11,000 his sureties are max weber and david b weber propri etors of the colnmbus theater they scheduled property valued at 300,000 smejkal indicted before ~ \ smejkal was re-elected to the legislature dy a few days ago having been nomi nated on the republican ticket at the aame primaries ln which the fraud ls charged he is republican captain of the twenty-second precinct of the nineteenth ward he has been indicted for similar offenses twice before but acquitted both times the other men against whom indictments were returned yesterday are â€¢ harry jacobson judge of elections ln the twenty-second precinct of the nineteenth ______ work of the special grand jury to date four indictments returned last week against : q j chott christopher weias allen e frazln thomas e canty thirty-eight indict merits returned yester day against abram 3 karris joseph phillips edward j smejkal daniel j foote harry jacobson isadora goldstein q j chott samuel boahman george levinson allen b frazin john j ziska christopher weiaz charles j bab ka thomas e canty henry bin stein jacob twery edward j smejkal abram j harris jap statesman predicts war with america which may last hundred years encroachment of united states in philippines expected to cause conflict new york nov 13 1n an interview by richard barry with general viscount i jano torlo japanese privy councillor and | elder statesman printed ln the december j number of hampton's broadway magazine the latter ls quoted as saying that war between america and japan ls inevitable after this prediction general torlo who gave the interview shortly after the close of the japanese-russian war intimated that the cause of the war would be the encroachment of the united states by tak ing possession of the philippines and said that the war might last thirty years or it might last a hundred years but that centuries were like days in the life of a nation like japan remember also thnt as a nation we j are only one member of a family that | family covers the whole continent of asia and all the islands thnt he near by it has many members from the old grandfather 'â– china to the little bad boy in the philip 1 pines it is a big family a wonderful fam ily and we revere it we give it our obedi ence and our love you have a family just as we have one your family of the occident and four times in the last 2,000 years has some mem ber of your family strayed over to impose upon the rights of our family four times we have cast you out and your marks have hardly remained do you think then that the fifth time you come upon us you are to stay to take our lands keep our men remove our money do you then regard so confidently a conflict with america the interviewer asfeed i regard lt as inevitable you are en croaching on the rights of our family sailor kills superior then jumps into sea drowns himself rather than bej punished for crime new xork nov 13.-after crushing ln ! the head of his superior officer with an ax ' james layson boatswain of the liverpool | sailing ship colony refused to submit to ' arrest and still waving the bloody weapon committed suicide by jumping into the sea i the colony was bound from port talbot \ to coquimbo chile the owners being notl 1 fled by cable from the latter point layson ; quarreled with an able seaman and the i second mate robert llackall interfered ' while the mate's back was turned layson | grabbed an ax and split his skull ln twain captain williamson got a shotgun but be ! fore he was able to fire layson still brand ishing the ax and shouting like a mad man '. leaped into the sea as he began to swim i away from the ship a lifeboat was got i ready but before it got to him layson held his face downward in the sea and was drowned big auto plant burned stoneham muss nov 13 much valuable machinery together with a dozen automobiles owned by the shawmut motor company was destroyed to-day by fire three tenament bouses near by also were burned the loss is estimated at nearly 100,000 bedford confesses killing hoganson shot when twice fired upon marengo farmer tells sheriff at woodstock waives his arraignment fatal quarrel started over sale of buggy and pass ing of lie by a staff correspondent woodstock 111 nov 13 1 killed oscar hoganson i shot him ln the head but i did so only after he had flred two shots at me i am a murderer but i don't want to hang i expect to go to prison for the bal ance of my life with these words to-night john bedford arrested nt ellis neb charred with the murder of hoganson on his mchenry coun ty farm near marengo cleared up the mys tery that has aroused the farming com munity to a high pitch of excitement it was while being driven across country from crystal lake to woodstock the coun ty seat where he had been given a pre liminary hearing before a justice of the peace that bedford made his confession to sheriff wandrack to-night in the auto mobile besides the sheriff and his prisoner were the chauffeur and a staff correspond ent of the examiner bedford displayed no emotion while telling how he killed and buried his victim ln a chicken house on the bedford farm he joked and laughed con tinually it was only when he referred to bis aged mother that he showed any feel ing consideration only for mother don't tell my mother anything about this he pleaded it will kill the old lady deputy sheriff burke arrived with his prisoner from nebraska this afternoon ow ing to the feeling existing ln martngo and the threats of violence against bed ford that have been freely made it was ! not thought advisable to risk taking the j prisoner to that place instead he was j taken to crystal lake there he was nr i signed before justice of the peace gard j aer bedford waived examination and wa held without bail for the murder of hogan son he will be tried at the january term of court in woodstock sheriff wandrack immediately brought his prisoner to the county jail ln this place he was shackled hand and foot bedford was not communicative at first finally he said i may as well tell lt all now on that saturday two weeks ago ho ganson came to my house to dicker fer the purchase of a buggy that i owned we i sat ln the front room of my house ho i gnnson claimed i had agreed to sell the j buggy for 5 i wanted 10 for the rig we quarreled the argument grew heated { dually i called hogauson a liar he i pulled his revolver and flred twice at me ! there was only one thing left for me to do i grabbed my shotgun and fired jat him the charge struck him over the j left eye i difficulty in hiding body : hogauson fell all ln a heap the blood i seemed to spurt everywhere this was be ! tween 1 and 2 o'clock ln the afternoon | i was wild i didn't know what to do ! every minute i expected that some of the ' neighbors would come ln and see hogan i son's body in the house finally i pulled ! down all the blinds then i got a spade j and went out to dig a grave for the body i i went to the cellar first but the ground ! was too hard there then i went outside i and lifted up an old corn crib the ground â– was too hard there i went into the woods ' but still the ground was too hard . i out ln the woods i sat on a log for a i while and deliberated whether or not to commit suicide finally i said to myself i no i won't commit suicide i'll see my old i mother before i die | then i went to the chicken house the , ground was soft there while i was dig igiug the grave several men passed by i i heard them talking about my blinds being l down if they had come ln i would have ' killed myself with the revolver i had taken ! from hoganson's body i by this time it was between 4 and 5 ' o'clock i wrapped hoganson ln an old ' blanket and tied a bag around his head j and burled him i burned the blood j stained carpet and rubbed out the blood 1 stains on the floor i sold offices in rockford i i remained around home until about 8 i o'clock i went to hoganson's farm took i his three horses and drove them to rock i ford where i sold them monday morning to a man named carlson for 75 i came ! back to marengo on tuesday morning to ' see if they were talking nbout hoganson's ' disappearance they were not they thought he was away on a visit ! bedford then told of visiting elgin ojil i cago lake forest and dekalb buying j a ticket at the latter place on thursdny ! morning for omaha from cmaha he i went to the farm of his half-sister near i ellis where his mother was he remained i there until arrested ! on bedford when arrested was found a i silver watch which has been identified ns | the one ktolen from william evans a ' farmer three days before the murder of i hoganson evans was struck over the i head with a blunt instrument and was left lying unconscious lu the road v s l lutnley of marengo has been j retained by bedford's mother to defend i the prisoner payne urges extra session for tariff chairman of ways and means committee outlines work of revisers protection main point maximum and minimum law similar to european stat utes is favored washington nov 13 sereno b payne representative from new york and chairman of the omnipotent ways and means committee of the house of repre sentatives ls one of a very small coterie of men who will draft the uew tariff law that congress will pass to meet the cam paign pledges of tariff revision at the request of the examiner repre sentative payne gave a statement setting farth his views as to what this new tariff lav will contain and how the schedules will be revised _ during the last session of congress some time in april or may i stated to the house that there would be a revision of the tariff schedules by the friends of pro tectionâ€”the republican party after the elections in november at that time the Chicago nominating convention bad not by a declaration of principle pledged the republican party to tariff revision i made my statement actuated solely by evidence that had becu laid before the ways and means committee as to the necessity for charges in certain tariff schedules it was impractical to make the changes then and it is in my judgment impossible to make them now at a short session of congress extra session necessary a special session of congress during which the entire attention of the law makers can be devoted to this one subject ls necessary in framiug tariff legislation lt is wrong to attempt patchwork on tariff schedules at regular intervals all the schedules the entire law should be taken lup and studied foi 1 changes necessary to give lt a proper balance to equalize it the present law has been ln effect more than ten years i nbave stated that i prefer a maximum and minimum tariff rather than a straight tariff the Chicago convention declared for the maximum an minimum tariff and while i do not know the views of presi dent-elect Taft i understand that he too is ln favor of such a la since the ding ley law was enacted france germany and russia have passed maximum and mini mum tariff laws it ls probable a tariff law under this plan will be enacted at the spe cial session the republican majority of the com mittee will keep before it the cardinal principle of protection to american inter ests and industries full hearings will lie given by the committee on all schedules both sides being heard the manufacturer and the laborer the aim of the com mittee will be to do justice to all by scientifically equalizing the duties what is the republican programme in connection with tariff legislation outline tariff programme mr payne smiled as when leading his cohorts in the house or sounding his call to battle i*ou may recall that i toll the house inst spring the republican programme it has not changed the ways and means committee will take all the evidence it can get on the sub ject then the republican members will get together and draft the tariff bill we will call our democratic friends of the committee in after our work is done and submit it to them it may not suit them but the republicans of the committee will report the republican bill out to the house after full debate and a general interchange of ideas a republican ma jority in the house will pass the new republican protective tariff it has been found continued mr payne that a new tariff law should go into effect at once so as to prevent im porters rushing ln shiploads of goods un der old tariff laws if they can benefit there by 1 think it likely that the new tariff law will go into effect the day after it is signed by the president therefore i do not see how it will be possible to arrange for the new law to go into effect july 1 the beginning of the next fiscal year os has been suggested melba's son divorced by wife for cruelty london nov 13 george nesl.it ami strong mme melba's son was divorced to-day by his wife formerly ruby otway after twenty months of unhappy union a curious circumstance is thnt anj one reading the reports of the suit in this even ing's london papers would never be able to identify the respondent ns the son of the famous prima donna mrs armstro g told a pitiable story of violence and in fidelity on the part of her husband she said he began to quarrel with and abuse her within two months after their mar riage mme melba arrived in london yes tfrday from cardiff wales and her son is with her she regards hiin as an injured innocent heney shot down in court bullet stops ruef trial kept off jury ex-convict tries to kill prosecutor morris haas caught after at tempted murder saved from crowd by police lawyer wounded in head after making supposed dying statement victim rallies and may recover insanity to be defense assailant says disgrace ol his exposure drove him mad san francisco cal nov 13 francis j heney chief attor ney for the prosecution in the graft cases was shot while seated al the counsel table in judge lawlor's courtroom ln carpenters hall fulton street near polk at 4:25 o'clock this afternoon by morris haas an ex-con vlct engaged ln the saloon business at post and webster streets whom heney had exposed while attempting to qualify as a juror in the trial of abraham ruef for bribery in tha parkslde cases it was first thought heney would die but later reports were more hopeful the act of the would-be assassin was so 6udden and unexpected that 7ohn foley who has acted as heney'a bodyguard since the beginning of tha work of ousting the schmitz adminis tration and prosecuting the higher ups was unable to save his en : ployer however he grappled witÃŸ haas and with the assistance of dep uty sheriff frank coyle disarmed him and turned him over to the cue ' tody of the police haas will plead insanity it is said that haas defense wtll ha in sanity on the theory that he was wren insane by the expose of his prison record haas was sent to san quentln ln 1888 fo two years from san bernardino county ou a charge of embezzling 275 from a arm by which he was employe he had been accepted as a juror in a former enef trial when it was discovered that hs wu an ex-convict dp to that time haas disgrace had been almost forgotten and he claimed to hav been living an upright life since his re lease i was drlzen crazy haas is reported to have said after his arrest by the shame brought upon myself and my family by the exposure that 1 had been ln prison haas is said by friends to have been brooding over the matter for months heney in lane hospital appears to ba certain of recovery he has given out this statement i will get well and put abe ruef be hind the bars at 9 o'clock the surgeons at the hospital were ln consultation they are anxious to locate the bullet and extract it in order to prevent danger of blood poisoning declared recess taken for conference a recess had been given by judge lawlor five minutes before the attempted assassi nation heney in company with counsel for the defendant accepted the invitation of judge lawlor to step into his chambers for consultation regarding instructions to be given the jury heney ach dozier and o'gara consulted with the court for five minutes whereupon the jury and spectators flled out into the open air after the consultation heney walked down the aisle to the entrance he was alone and had no thought of danger he left the room for a moment and ou return ing to ihe courtroom he was smiling at something a friend had said to him in pass ing heney had been seated at a table set apart for counsel for the prosecution he wns the only attorney in the room he rested his head on his hand and was glancing over his notes at the instant al mccabe chief clerk of district attor ney langdon who had been waiting to i talk to heney stepped over to the table prosecutor of the ban francisco graft cases who was shot down in the courtroom during the ruef trial by an ex-convict whose prison record had been exposed and sketch of the shooting drawn from a telegraphed descrip tion metcalf resigns new berry named washington d c nov 13 victor howard mctcalf secretary of the navy since 1806 resigned his position to-day orally to the president and will surrender his portfolio to truman h newberry assistant secretary of the navy on the first of december next mr newberry was appointed secretary of the navy im mediately upon the tendering of the res ignation from mr metcalf the white house mr newberry and the navy department assert positively that the only reason for the resignation of mr metcalf ls his continuing ill health the formal letter of mr metcalf's sur rendering the post was received at the white house late this afternoon although the verbal resignation took place at the cabinet meeting the white house says the letter of mr metcalf and the response of the president probably will be made public tomorrow mf newberry is the first secretary in several administrations who might be called a sailor during the spanish-amer ican war he was a part of the naval re serve and at that time fell under the favorable observation of president roose velt who advanced him to the post of assistant secretary of the navy he hai given great attention to the subject of the naval militia and is interested partic ularly ln the naval station on the great ; lakes mr newberry is a wealthy man i and is from the state of michigan mr metcalf is a new yorker who left his state in 1881 went to california acd lins served several terms iu . tiie house of representatives he was appointed to the position ot secretary of tlve department oi commerce and labor ln 1'.'04 whi.-h place he held until he became secretary of the navy to succeed mr bonaparte who was transferred to the department of justice ns attorney general the principal events in mr metcalf's administration were tlie completion of sev eral of the finest battleships and the or ganization of the arouml-the-world voyage of the atlantic battleship fleet mrs carter s fine lingerie to be sold new york nov 13 night caps of pink and blue silk and lace with bows and rosettes of baby ribbon to mutch corset covers of lavender blue pink orange and white silk and all of lace twenty-two pairs of silk stockings iu green blue white and black besides other bits of lingerie lawn linen and lace are to be sold at the fifth avenue auction rooms to-morrow to satisfy the ungallant creditors of mrs leslie car ter this is the second sale of personal belong ings of the auburn-haired actress who grew into fame under the impulsive david belasco but whose career bas been dimmed since her marriage to a man two-thirds her age led belasco to sever relations wilh her the first sale of household furniture automobiles etc took place some mouths ago there are suits of silken underwear so sheer and fine that they can be crumpled into the size of a golf ball petticoats of silk and of lace night gowns morning gowns lounging robes matinees iu fact every article of wearing apparel necessary to the comfort of a woman of extreme luxury are listed there are a score of dresses including the polka dot foulard mrs carter was wearing one july afternoon in 1906 when the whim seized her to marry william h payne of portsmouth x 11 there is a pair of shoes and slippers for every pair of stockings one pair is of black patent leather with white uppers eighteen inches high fastened with black buttons as big as dimes mrs carter is rather slender nnd that fact may account for the blue silk hip pads among her possessions it was ex plained that it was not fear of catching cold that led mis carter to own night caps lt was to preserve her coiffure into the second or third day true enough but no sordid motives of economy actuated the actress she simply wanted to avoid trouble veils belts shirtwaists mink fins rem nants of silk satin and lace gilt braid gnimpes lace yokes feather fans a lot of chiffon an ermine skin und several pounds of jewelry nre in 100 odd lots that the auctioneer also will hold up to a room full of bidders to-morrow on 2d page 2d column 911 weather forecast jl m w Chicago andvtcinity partiy j | wt\'_l c ' ou dy dn d continued cool saturday .-â€ž a **^ lof with possible light snow flurries ; %, j v^l sunday fair with rising tempera txw vi ture moderate westerly winds be ini jwi coming variable ffl ihave you seen my baby words and music-free with to morrows sunday examiner don't be ont of wor when it costs so little to advertise in the examiner's situation wanted columns * || going into business lu wjk for yourself rjj fl ii read the business chance col f k v v mn of the examiner -?- j j many choice bargains are j^j jjms offered every day jm

Chicago examiner vol vl no 282 a m saturday november 14 1908 16 pages price one cent i gss criminal court clerk harris indicted for perjury representative edward j smejkal also accused of primary frauds 38 indictments returned high officials charged with intimidation and falsify ing pol books work only just begun prosecutor loesch says men higher up are next on i fr erjury intimidation falsifica |^ tion of poll books and know * ingly accepting illegal votes at the august primary election were charged yesterday in thirty-eight in dictments returned hy the special grand jury against election officers politicians and ward leaders in the ninth and nineteenth wards abram j harris clerk of the crim inal court was caught in the grand jury toils and is under eight indict ments four of which charge him with perjury harris whose office is two floors below the room in which the in dictments were voted was plainly af ' fected by the news he said that he was innocent but would not or could not explain away the evidence against another high public officer placed under indictment yesterday was ed i ward j smejkal representative in the legislature and republican cap tain of the twenty-second precinct of the nineteenth ward smejkal did not appear at the court building al : though he knew that he was to be ln . dieted last night he refused to talk ' further than to declare his innocence men indicted are prominent the other men indicted nre all prominent in politics in their immediate neighbor i hoods several of them being precinct cap ' tains and ward leaders among their num ber are the four men indicted last week who are now charged with further offenses l special state's attorney frank j loesch and his osslstants prophesy that this is to be but a beginning we have been working hard this week said mr loesch nnd we feel that we have accomplished somcttvng we are not through yet by any means however much has been said about men higher ' up i trust that the results to-day will not make them feel any more secure than heretofore we shall not stop until we have gone to the very top of this con spiracy we will be busier thau ever next left work incomplete â– Â» the special grand jury worked furiously all day yesterday and was not able to make its return to judge freeman until after 4 o'clock the harris indictments were voted yesterday along with nine others the grand jury left its wnrli in a measure incomplete when lt adjourned to go before judge freeman as there are a number of other alleged offenders ln these same wards several of them closely associated with those already indicted against whom it ts felt sufficient evidence has already been secured criminal court clerk harris whose in dictment brought surprise and alarm to a best of his political associates on the west side has been ln politics in Chicago for aeveral years his first public service *.__ aa alderman fiom the ninth ward and he waa ln the city council for two terms he t.-s elected clerk of the criminal court two years ago and still has two years to serve aa clerk lt became his duty list night to issue a capias against harris appeared before judge freeman at 1.80 yesterday afternoon and gave bond in the sum of 11,000 his sureties are max weber and david b weber propri etors of the colnmbus theater they scheduled property valued at 300,000 smejkal indicted before ~ \ smejkal was re-elected to the legislature dy a few days ago having been nomi nated on the republican ticket at the aame primaries ln which the fraud ls charged he is republican captain of the twenty-second precinct of the nineteenth ward he has been indicted for similar offenses twice before but acquitted both times the other men against whom indictments were returned yesterday are â€¢ harry jacobson judge of elections ln the twenty-second precinct of the nineteenth ______ work of the special grand jury to date four indictments returned last week against : q j chott christopher weias allen e frazln thomas e canty thirty-eight indict merits returned yester day against abram 3 karris joseph phillips edward j smejkal daniel j foote harry jacobson isadora goldstein q j chott samuel boahman george levinson allen b frazin john j ziska christopher weiaz charles j bab ka thomas e canty henry bin stein jacob twery edward j smejkal abram j harris jap statesman predicts war with america which may last hundred years encroachment of united states in philippines expected to cause conflict new york nov 13 1n an interview by richard barry with general viscount i jano torlo japanese privy councillor and | elder statesman printed ln the december j number of hampton's broadway magazine the latter ls quoted as saying that war between america and japan ls inevitable after this prediction general torlo who gave the interview shortly after the close of the japanese-russian war intimated that the cause of the war would be the encroachment of the united states by tak ing possession of the philippines and said that the war might last thirty years or it might last a hundred years but that centuries were like days in the life of a nation like japan remember also thnt as a nation we j are only one member of a family that | family covers the whole continent of asia and all the islands thnt he near by it has many members from the old grandfather 'â– china to the little bad boy in the philip 1 pines it is a big family a wonderful fam ily and we revere it we give it our obedi ence and our love you have a family just as we have one your family of the occident and four times in the last 2,000 years has some mem ber of your family strayed over to impose upon the rights of our family four times we have cast you out and your marks have hardly remained do you think then that the fifth time you come upon us you are to stay to take our lands keep our men remove our money do you then regard so confidently a conflict with america the interviewer asfeed i regard lt as inevitable you are en croaching on the rights of our family sailor kills superior then jumps into sea drowns himself rather than bej punished for crime new xork nov 13.-after crushing ln ! the head of his superior officer with an ax ' james layson boatswain of the liverpool | sailing ship colony refused to submit to ' arrest and still waving the bloody weapon committed suicide by jumping into the sea i the colony was bound from port talbot \ to coquimbo chile the owners being notl 1 fled by cable from the latter point layson ; quarreled with an able seaman and the i second mate robert llackall interfered ' while the mate's back was turned layson | grabbed an ax and split his skull ln twain captain williamson got a shotgun but be ! fore he was able to fire layson still brand ishing the ax and shouting like a mad man '. leaped into the sea as he began to swim i away from the ship a lifeboat was got i ready but before it got to him layson held his face downward in the sea and was drowned big auto plant burned stoneham muss nov 13 much valuable machinery together with a dozen automobiles owned by the shawmut motor company was destroyed to-day by fire three tenament bouses near by also were burned the loss is estimated at nearly 100,000 bedford confesses killing hoganson shot when twice fired upon marengo farmer tells sheriff at woodstock waives his arraignment fatal quarrel started over sale of buggy and pass ing of lie by a staff correspondent woodstock 111 nov 13 1 killed oscar hoganson i shot him ln the head but i did so only after he had flred two shots at me i am a murderer but i don't want to hang i expect to go to prison for the bal ance of my life with these words to-night john bedford arrested nt ellis neb charred with the murder of hoganson on his mchenry coun ty farm near marengo cleared up the mys tery that has aroused the farming com munity to a high pitch of excitement it was while being driven across country from crystal lake to woodstock the coun ty seat where he had been given a pre liminary hearing before a justice of the peace that bedford made his confession to sheriff wandrack to-night in the auto mobile besides the sheriff and his prisoner were the chauffeur and a staff correspond ent of the examiner bedford displayed no emotion while telling how he killed and buried his victim ln a chicken house on the bedford farm he joked and laughed con tinually it was only when he referred to bis aged mother that he showed any feel ing consideration only for mother don't tell my mother anything about this he pleaded it will kill the old lady deputy sheriff burke arrived with his prisoner from nebraska this afternoon ow ing to the feeling existing ln martngo and the threats of violence against bed ford that have been freely made it was ! not thought advisable to risk taking the j prisoner to that place instead he was j taken to crystal lake there he was nr i signed before justice of the peace gard j aer bedford waived examination and wa held without bail for the murder of hogan son he will be tried at the january term of court in woodstock sheriff wandrack immediately brought his prisoner to the county jail ln this place he was shackled hand and foot bedford was not communicative at first finally he said i may as well tell lt all now on that saturday two weeks ago ho ganson came to my house to dicker fer the purchase of a buggy that i owned we i sat ln the front room of my house ho i gnnson claimed i had agreed to sell the j buggy for 5 i wanted 10 for the rig we quarreled the argument grew heated { dually i called hogauson a liar he i pulled his revolver and flred twice at me ! there was only one thing left for me to do i grabbed my shotgun and fired jat him the charge struck him over the j left eye i difficulty in hiding body : hogauson fell all ln a heap the blood i seemed to spurt everywhere this was be ! tween 1 and 2 o'clock ln the afternoon | i was wild i didn't know what to do ! every minute i expected that some of the ' neighbors would come ln and see hogan i son's body in the house finally i pulled ! down all the blinds then i got a spade j and went out to dig a grave for the body i i went to the cellar first but the ground ! was too hard there then i went outside i and lifted up an old corn crib the ground â– was too hard there i went into the woods ' but still the ground was too hard . i out ln the woods i sat on a log for a i while and deliberated whether or not to commit suicide finally i said to myself i no i won't commit suicide i'll see my old i mother before i die | then i went to the chicken house the , ground was soft there while i was dig igiug the grave several men passed by i i heard them talking about my blinds being l down if they had come ln i would have ' killed myself with the revolver i had taken ! from hoganson's body i by this time it was between 4 and 5 ' o'clock i wrapped hoganson ln an old ' blanket and tied a bag around his head j and burled him i burned the blood j stained carpet and rubbed out the blood 1 stains on the floor i sold offices in rockford i i remained around home until about 8 i o'clock i went to hoganson's farm took i his three horses and drove them to rock i ford where i sold them monday morning to a man named carlson for 75 i came ! back to marengo on tuesday morning to ' see if they were talking nbout hoganson's ' disappearance they were not they thought he was away on a visit ! bedford then told of visiting elgin ojil i cago lake forest and dekalb buying j a ticket at the latter place on thursdny ! morning for omaha from cmaha he i went to the farm of his half-sister near i ellis where his mother was he remained i there until arrested ! on bedford when arrested was found a i silver watch which has been identified ns | the one ktolen from william evans a ' farmer three days before the murder of i hoganson evans was struck over the i head with a blunt instrument and was left lying unconscious lu the road v s l lutnley of marengo has been j retained by bedford's mother to defend i the prisoner payne urges extra session for tariff chairman of ways and means committee outlines work of revisers protection main point maximum and minimum law similar to european stat utes is favored washington nov 13 sereno b payne representative from new york and chairman of the omnipotent ways and means committee of the house of repre sentatives ls one of a very small coterie of men who will draft the uew tariff law that congress will pass to meet the cam paign pledges of tariff revision at the request of the examiner repre sentative payne gave a statement setting farth his views as to what this new tariff lav will contain and how the schedules will be revised _ during the last session of congress some time in april or may i stated to the house that there would be a revision of the tariff schedules by the friends of pro tectionâ€”the republican party after the elections in november at that time the Chicago nominating convention bad not by a declaration of principle pledged the republican party to tariff revision i made my statement actuated solely by evidence that had becu laid before the ways and means committee as to the necessity for charges in certain tariff schedules it was impractical to make the changes then and it is in my judgment impossible to make them now at a short session of congress extra session necessary a special session of congress during which the entire attention of the law makers can be devoted to this one subject ls necessary in framiug tariff legislation lt is wrong to attempt patchwork on tariff schedules at regular intervals all the schedules the entire law should be taken lup and studied foi 1 changes necessary to give lt a proper balance to equalize it the present law has been ln effect more than ten years i nbave stated that i prefer a maximum and minimum tariff rather than a straight tariff the Chicago convention declared for the maximum an minimum tariff and while i do not know the views of presi dent-elect Taft i understand that he too is ln favor of such a la since the ding ley law was enacted france germany and russia have passed maximum and mini mum tariff laws it ls probable a tariff law under this plan will be enacted at the spe cial session the republican majority of the com mittee will keep before it the cardinal principle of protection to american inter ests and industries full hearings will lie given by the committee on all schedules both sides being heard the manufacturer and the laborer the aim of the com mittee will be to do justice to all by scientifically equalizing the duties what is the republican programme in connection with tariff legislation outline tariff programme mr payne smiled as when leading his cohorts in the house or sounding his call to battle i*ou may recall that i toll the house inst spring the republican programme it has not changed the ways and means committee will take all the evidence it can get on the sub ject then the republican members will get together and draft the tariff bill we will call our democratic friends of the committee in after our work is done and submit it to them it may not suit them but the republicans of the committee will report the republican bill out to the house after full debate and a general interchange of ideas a republican ma jority in the house will pass the new republican protective tariff it has been found continued mr payne that a new tariff law should go into effect at once so as to prevent im porters rushing ln shiploads of goods un der old tariff laws if they can benefit there by 1 think it likely that the new tariff law will go into effect the day after it is signed by the president therefore i do not see how it will be possible to arrange for the new law to go into effect july 1 the beginning of the next fiscal year os has been suggested melba's son divorced by wife for cruelty london nov 13 george nesl.it ami strong mme melba's son was divorced to-day by his wife formerly ruby otway after twenty months of unhappy union a curious circumstance is thnt anj one reading the reports of the suit in this even ing's london papers would never be able to identify the respondent ns the son of the famous prima donna mrs armstro g told a pitiable story of violence and in fidelity on the part of her husband she said he began to quarrel with and abuse her within two months after their mar riage mme melba arrived in london yes tfrday from cardiff wales and her son is with her she regards hiin as an injured innocent heney shot down in court bullet stops ruef trial kept off jury ex-convict tries to kill prosecutor morris haas caught after at tempted murder saved from crowd by police lawyer wounded in head after making supposed dying statement victim rallies and may recover insanity to be defense assailant says disgrace ol his exposure drove him mad san francisco cal nov 13 francis j heney chief attor ney for the prosecution in the graft cases was shot while seated al the counsel table in judge lawlor's courtroom ln carpenters hall fulton street near polk at 4:25 o'clock this afternoon by morris haas an ex-con vlct engaged ln the saloon business at post and webster streets whom heney had exposed while attempting to qualify as a juror in the trial of abraham ruef for bribery in tha parkslde cases it was first thought heney would die but later reports were more hopeful the act of the would-be assassin was so 6udden and unexpected that 7ohn foley who has acted as heney'a bodyguard since the beginning of tha work of ousting the schmitz adminis tration and prosecuting the higher ups was unable to save his en : ployer however he grappled witÃŸ haas and with the assistance of dep uty sheriff frank coyle disarmed him and turned him over to the cue ' tody of the police haas will plead insanity it is said that haas defense wtll ha in sanity on the theory that he was wren insane by the expose of his prison record haas was sent to san quentln ln 1888 fo two years from san bernardino county ou a charge of embezzling 275 from a arm by which he was employe he had been accepted as a juror in a former enef trial when it was discovered that hs wu an ex-convict dp to that time haas disgrace had been almost forgotten and he claimed to hav been living an upright life since his re lease i was drlzen crazy haas is reported to have said after his arrest by the shame brought upon myself and my family by the exposure that 1 had been ln prison haas is said by friends to have been brooding over the matter for months heney in lane hospital appears to ba certain of recovery he has given out this statement i will get well and put abe ruef be hind the bars at 9 o'clock the surgeons at the hospital were ln consultation they are anxious to locate the bullet and extract it in order to prevent danger of blood poisoning declared recess taken for conference a recess had been given by judge lawlor five minutes before the attempted assassi nation heney in company with counsel for the defendant accepted the invitation of judge lawlor to step into his chambers for consultation regarding instructions to be given the jury heney ach dozier and o'gara consulted with the court for five minutes whereupon the jury and spectators flled out into the open air after the consultation heney walked down the aisle to the entrance he was alone and had no thought of danger he left the room for a moment and ou return ing to ihe courtroom he was smiling at something a friend had said to him in pass ing heney had been seated at a table set apart for counsel for the prosecution he wns the only attorney in the room he rested his head on his hand and was glancing over his notes at the instant al mccabe chief clerk of district attor ney langdon who had been waiting to i talk to heney stepped over to the table prosecutor of the ban francisco graft cases who was shot down in the courtroom during the ruef trial by an ex-convict whose prison record had been exposed and sketch of the shooting drawn from a telegraphed descrip tion metcalf resigns new berry named washington d c nov 13 victor howard mctcalf secretary of the navy since 1806 resigned his position to-day orally to the president and will surrender his portfolio to truman h newberry assistant secretary of the navy on the first of december next mr newberry was appointed secretary of the navy im mediately upon the tendering of the res ignation from mr metcalf the white house mr newberry and the navy department assert positively that the only reason for the resignation of mr metcalf ls his continuing ill health the formal letter of mr metcalf's sur rendering the post was received at the white house late this afternoon although the verbal resignation took place at the cabinet meeting the white house says the letter of mr metcalf and the response of the president probably will be made public tomorrow mf newberry is the first secretary in several administrations who might be called a sailor during the spanish-amer ican war he was a part of the naval re serve and at that time fell under the favorable observation of president roose velt who advanced him to the post of assistant secretary of the navy he hai given great attention to the subject of the naval militia and is interested partic ularly ln the naval station on the great ; lakes mr newberry is a wealthy man i and is from the state of michigan mr metcalf is a new yorker who left his state in 1881 went to california acd lins served several terms iu . tiie house of representatives he was appointed to the position ot secretary of tlve department oi commerce and labor ln 1'.'04 whi.-h place he held until he became secretary of the navy to succeed mr bonaparte who was transferred to the department of justice ns attorney general the principal events in mr metcalf's administration were tlie completion of sev eral of the finest battleships and the or ganization of the arouml-the-world voyage of the atlantic battleship fleet mrs carter s fine lingerie to be sold new york nov 13 night caps of pink and blue silk and lace with bows and rosettes of baby ribbon to mutch corset covers of lavender blue pink orange and white silk and all of lace twenty-two pairs of silk stockings iu green blue white and black besides other bits of lingerie lawn linen and lace are to be sold at the fifth avenue auction rooms to-morrow to satisfy the ungallant creditors of mrs leslie car ter this is the second sale of personal belong ings of the auburn-haired actress who grew into fame under the impulsive david belasco but whose career bas been dimmed since her marriage to a man two-thirds her age led belasco to sever relations wilh her the first sale of household furniture automobiles etc took place some mouths ago there are suits of silken underwear so sheer and fine that they can be crumpled into the size of a golf ball petticoats of silk and of lace night gowns morning gowns lounging robes matinees iu fact every article of wearing apparel necessary to the comfort of a woman of extreme luxury are listed there are a score of dresses including the polka dot foulard mrs carter was wearing one july afternoon in 1906 when the whim seized her to marry william h payne of portsmouth x 11 there is a pair of shoes and slippers for every pair of stockings one pair is of black patent leather with white uppers eighteen inches high fastened with black buttons as big as dimes mrs carter is rather slender nnd that fact may account for the blue silk hip pads among her possessions it was ex plained that it was not fear of catching cold that led mis carter to own night caps lt was to preserve her coiffure into the second or third day true enough but no sordid motives of economy actuated the actress she simply wanted to avoid trouble veils belts shirtwaists mink fins rem nants of silk satin and lace gilt braid gnimpes lace yokes feather fans a lot of chiffon an ermine skin und several pounds of jewelry nre in 100 odd lots that the auctioneer also will hold up to a room full of bidders to-morrow on 2d page 2d column 911 weather forecast jl m w Chicago andvtcinity partiy j | wt\'_l c ' ou dy dn d continued cool saturday .-â€ž a **^ lof with possible light snow flurries ; %, j v^l sunday fair with rising tempera txw vi ture moderate westerly winds be ini jwi coming variable ffl ihave you seen my baby words and music-free with to morrows sunday examiner don't be ont of wor when it costs so little to advertise in the examiner's situation wanted columns * || going into business lu wjk for yourself rjj fl ii read the business chance col f k v v mn of the examiner -?- j j many choice bargains are j^j jjms offered every day jm